Lucas Dolega’s funeral was held last Thursday in Paris’ Père Lachaise cemetery. Among the anonymous crowd that came out to honor his memory were fifty photographers both freelance and from international press agencies.

31.01.2011[ read full story ]

Gita Lenz passed away on Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at a nursing home in New York City. Lenz turned 100 in October and lived to see her work published by Candela Books. We recently had a successful exhibition of her photographs and are proud to have helped her work ...

27.01.2011[ read full story ]

Milton Rogovin, the Buffalo social documentary photographer who became internationally renowned for his portraits of the poor and working class, died January 18 in his Chatham Avenue home, under hospice care, from complications related to a mild heart attack.

19.01.2011[ read full story ]

European pressphoto agency (EPA) photographer Lucas Dolega was hit by a teargas grenade on the afternoon of Friday, January 14, where, alongside four other photographers, he was covering the turmoil in the streets of Tunis. “It was 1:30pm when tension soared on Bourguiba ave...

18.01.2011[ read full story ]

Here is the text published yesterday by David Burnett on his blog: "Adios Amigo…Somewhere in the very late ‘60s, as a budding photojournalist, I began shooting color slide film. Ektachrome, Agfachrome, and Anscochrome were the top films, each processed in a procedure known as E2 (and which later evolv...

07.01.2011[ read full story ]

An unlikely pilgrimage is under way to Dwayne’s Photo, a small family business that has through luck and persistence become the last processor in the world of Kodachrome, the first successful color film and still the most beloved.

06.01.2011[ read full story ]

For economical reasons provoked by the dramatic drop in sales, the Eastman Kodak Co announced in 2009 that it would cease production of Kodachrome film. Kodachrome 64, the last item to remain the market, disappeared from store shelves on June 22, 2009, with a late 2010 ...

04.01.2011[ read full story ]

Paul Facchetti just passed away in Paris at the age of 98. This Italian born photographer, son of a fine arts professor at the Académie Brera of Milano, came to France with his family in 1928. He opened his first photography studio on the rue Saint Jacques in central Paris in 1935, att...

03.01.2011[ read full story ]

Music First, Jean-Pierre Leloir departs with winter winds. Known and recognized for his pictures of the Jazz and Music Hall scene, Jean-Pierre Leloir left us with the arrival of winter. He died on December 21, at 80 years old.

23.12.2010[ read full story ]

Here is a text written by Dennis Hevesi (New York Times): “Garry Gross Is Dead at 73; Photographer of Clothes and Their Absence. Garry Gross, a fashion photographer for 30 years who was best known for controversial photos of an unclothed 10-year-old Brooke Shields, died on Nov. 30 at hi...

13.12.2010[ read full story ]